De Gruyter Handbook of Social Epidemiology

Terrence D. Hill, Tarani Chandola, Ginny Garcia-Alexander

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9783111349671
• Topic: Medicine

Although interest in social epidemiology has grown exponentially over the past three decades, there is a glaring need for an edited handbook that provides a contemporary, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art interdisciplinary survey of established and emerging areas of study to better support the training and research activity of scholars and students.

The De Gruyter Handbook of Social Epidemiology is an indispensable reference work that brings together the contributions of leading social epidemiologists from around the world. Our interdisciplinary approach represents a range of approaches to social epidemiology, including anthropology, demography, gerontology, medicine, psychology, public health, social work, and sociology. By highlighting established and emerging areas within the field of social epidemiology, this volume offers an invaluable resource for scholars and students who are interested in the ways in which population health intersects with aging, socioeconomic determinants, race and ethnicity, migration, sex and gender, sexual orientation, social relationships, religion, neighborhood context, environmental ecology, area income inequality, and political determinants.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• An American prelude: The Holy Office and the worker question in the nineteenth century
• Albert Maria Weiß OP (1844 – 1925): Ideologue and critic of ideology
• The Bible scholar Vincent Zapletal  (1867 – 1938) and his reflections on the social, political and economic challenges of the first half of the twentieth century
• Wrong philosophy leads to wrong thinking: The strict Thomism of Gallus Manser (1866 – 1950) as the philosophical basis of ideological criticism
• The Dominicans and Irish nationalism,  1915 – 1923
• Franziskus Maria Stratmann (1883 – 1971) and Antonin-Gilbert Sertillanges (1863 – 1948) between nationalism and internationalism: Different approaches to war, 1914 – 1930
• Longing for “Flanders’ hour”: Flemish nationalism in the Belgian Dominican Province, 1900 – 1945
• The Italian Dominicans of the provinces of Utriusque Lombardiae and San Pietro Martire and their differing attitudes to Fascism
• Aurelius M. Arkenau OP (1900 – 1991) and the German Dominican province of Teutonia during the Nazi regime
• The Master of the Order’s dangerous liaisons: Martin Stanislas Gillet, 1929 – 1946
• The intellectual apostolate of the Czech Dominicans during the rise of socialism, 1945 – 1948
• Index of Persons